preLights featured on Nature Index
20 May 2020
We are thrilled that Nature Index has highlighted preLights in a new post that discusses platforms that review and curate preprints. With a special emphasis on the surge in COVID-19 preprints, the article also features the covidpreprints.com website and quotes from Jonny Coates, the preLighter who built the website, and Mate Palfy, the community manager[…]
Preprints by preLighters – Snehal Kadam
20 May 2020
Snehal Kadam is a research assistant in Karishma Kaushik’s lab and is studying bacterial pathogens and host-pathogen interactions. She has highlighted a number of preprints in this field, and is now first author on the new study: To Serum or Not to Serum: Reduced-serum based methods for contact-based co-culture of human dermal fibroblasts (HDFa) and[…]
Preprints by preLighters – David Wright
7 May 2020
In this new post series, we feature early-career researchers on the preLights team who have recently posted a preprint. They explain the main findings of their work, and why they chose to communicate their research through preprints. First up we have David Wright, who is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Leeds, where he[…]
Project by preLighters selected for the eLife Sprint
28 April 2020
We are delighted that the covidpreprints.com project was selected for the 2020 eLife Innovation Sprint. The team at the Sprint, which will be lead by Gautam Dey, Jonny Coates and Zhang-He Goh, is looking for the help of software developers and data scientists to give advice on how to efficiently extract and collate data across[…]
The preLights community build a new website for landmark coronavirus preprints
3 April 2020
Over the course of three months, more than a thousand coronavirus preprints have been posted. A group of preLighters has now created the website covidpreprints.com to feature landmark studies and place them on a timeline of the pandemic. In the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, with currently over one million confirmed cases worldwide and 50,000 deaths, scientists[…]
Call for preLighters – deadline extended until 31 March
20 March 2020
We know that many researchers have been adjusting to working from home this week and to reduce the stress, we have extended our deadline for applying to become a preLighter until 31 March 2020. We are seeking early-career researchers (PhD students, postdocs, PIs in their first few years) who are passionate about preprints and enjoy[…]